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Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-02-18
THE INHERENT DIFFERENCES

West will be as firmly and fully grasped
by the visitor as is the excellence Of oil
California over all other portions of the
Union. It would be wiser for the several
portions of California to see this fact,
and to act upon it. A party which goes
away from the warm, bslmy airs and
sunny skies of Southern Califor-
MIA to run into snowstorm
at the bay, fog.bank in Oak.
land, q "Santa Cruz mist" along
the upper coast, or the sharp air from
the summits of Shasta. will not fail to
appreciate the change. II he has gone
under the false impression that lie will
walk beneath golden orange groves. and
saunter beneath cloudless skies, as he
did in Los Angeles, the reaction is not
likely to be pleasant. Had he gono pre-.
pared for the real facts as he is sure to
find them, he would not be disappointed.
There are many and great attractions in
all parts of California, but they will not
attract all classes alike. The very ele-
ment of climate, industry or society
which will draw one man will repcl an
other.
1t is therefore useless to tell people
they will see what does not exist.
Grapes and deciduous fruits will flourish
in all parts Of California. The valleys
OF the Sacramento and San Joaquin EN-.
brace great deal of the finest grain
lands in the world. The river bottoms
in many sections will raise finer corn
than Illinois or Missouri. Marin, Hum.
boldt and other counties in the State are
q paradise to the dairymen. But when
man sets bis heart upon an orange or
lemon grove in climate where he can
60 without coat $50 days out of the
year--in short, when he must enjoy the
delights of truly semi.tropic climate,
free from snow, free from atemperature
below the freezing point OF water, with
the very. rarest of exceptions. and the
profits of orchards that go up to $3.50 or
even $500 per acre, il will be useless to
try to disguise the fact that these things
can be found nowhere outside of the
southern tier of counties. For such
attractions the tourist must come to
LOS ANGELES.
Here alone he can settle on his five or
ten acres of land, with 300 to 700 orange
trees planted on It and reap liberal
golden harvest, which from this narrow
patch Of ground will support his family
in luxury. Nowhere else will he find q
climate SO bright, so equable, go COM
Portable, so truly perfect. with nearly
every day in the year s'perfect day, I"
as he will beneath tho citrus groves, the
fig tree and the vine. While the whole
state will attract. and while all who
settle, ''from Siskiyou to San Diego, and
from the Sierras to the sea-" will bless
pleasant places, the most conteut Of
them. If they are domiciled in other parts
Of the State. will hardly escape sigh
Of half regret that it had not been more
perfectly ordered for them, and that
they had been fortunate enough to have
pitched their tents in Southern Califor.
nia.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-02-18
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Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-02-18

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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-01-22

ences are demoralizing. 1t is the an
tipodes of the home presided over by
the pure and pious mother. 1t is tha
hlthy pool into which society filings it's
young men, under the plea of harden
ing them.
In this foul atmosphere they acquire
the tone of a new world; they fit on
their incipient vices; they accustom
themselves to low views of many
things. The frequenter of the saloon
can not escape infection, and it is here
that the ideas are absorbed which, in
spite of the natural chivalry of Ameri-
cans makes their attitude towards
women too frequently a national re-
proach. We are too apt to think that
this kind ofinfdelity to high ideal is
found only in company with filth and
squalor, where
" The vtriol madness flushes up in the ruffan'x
head,
Till the filthy by-lane rings to the veil of thu
trampled wife"
But there is a certain brutality in the
disregard even of educated and pros
porous society to the protest of woman
against the saloon, to the magnitude
and poignancy of the suffering it
causes her, and especially to the cruel
wrongs it inhicts upon her motherhood.
Never were there so many appliances
IN operation for the imr= -,.es,,s.:st Of
men. Never We're the gnbx 1fH -
for leading the higher life so apunuant
If in spite of this multiplication of
spiritual and intellectual helps, of all
the refining and expanding educational
machinery which surrounds the nine
teenth-century citizen, he is not a
cleaner, purcr less animal man, it is
largely because he remains under this
sinister dominion. Exaggeration of the
intluenceitself would be difficult. There
is in the city Of the period nothing so
much in evidence as the saloon. You
can walk down one of the avenues of
New York, and count always one
and sometimes two in every block for
miles. There may be scarcity of
any other kind of stores, but there is
never lack Of these. Nor are they at
all confined to the squallid areas.
They flourish amid brown-stone blocks
as sturdily as amid tenement houses.
They have their clientage everywhere.
The wealthy club-man frequents his
favorite bar as regularly as the thirsty
laborer. There is difference in ex-
ternals, but not much more. Whether
u man be worth million dollars or
twenty-five cents, he can get but one
series of sensations and effects from
drink. He may, if wealthy, get them
i'll more ornamental and pleasant
way, but that is the extent of the dis
tinction between the saloons of the rich
and those of the poor George Frederic:
Parsons, in AtlQntic Montbly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-01-22
FLOATING VILLAS.
rhe Queer Households Moored Along the
Banks of the Upper Thames,


Banks of the Upper Thames,
Villas on the Thames, especially in
she pleasant, picturesque stretches be-
tween Hampton court and Windsor,
command such fabulous prices during
the summer months that nothing but
millionaires can indulge in the luxury.
Necessity is the mother of invention, "
and an ingenious mind has initiated a
movement that will make of the upper
Thames u series of floating villages.
This new fad is house-boat, built on
almost fiat bottom, thus allowing it to
be moored at any sylvan spot close under
the outrageous trees that line the
banks. The boat has its saloon, dining
and sleeping rooms, and is generally
fitted up by the ladies with exquisite
taste and comfort. There is great luxury
in quiet life on these handsomely-ap-
pointed crafts, and their numbers in
creased so rapidly last year that the
tradesmen sent round small steam
boats taking orders and delivering the
provisions. The owners Of fine villas
are naturally indignant at the constant
inroads on their privacy, and the ques-
ton rs to the right of mooring such
boats in close proximity to the grounds
of park is to be tested in the law
courts. These craft were moved to
different parts of the river by means OF
tugs, but recently Il steyn-wheel veloci-
pede has been tested as motive power.
The paddles, two feet in diameter, are
connected with gutband to the driv-
ing-wheel, which is twentysiX inches
in diameter and over seventy pounds i'll
weight. Ordinary bicycle handles,
lyaieh4are connected with the rudder,
Paddle cranks, and treadles are used.
The boat is thirty feet long and seven
feet beam, and was propelled two miles
and half, between NARROW and Bourne
End, in forty minutes, which is good
time. 1t caused great deal of aston
| ishment to the oarsmen and inhabitants
of other households to see such big
thing propelled so easily by one man.
| London Letter.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-01-22
TEACHING TEMPERANCE.

The Great Work Being Carried On in the
Public Schools Through the w. C. t. U.
Mrs. Mary II. Hunt, National Super
intendent of Scientific Instruction for
the w. G. T. u, has officially an
nounced four different tests for deter
mining the fitness of textbooks and
charts that purport to teach scientific
Temperance. As the time seems fast
approaching when our public schools
will require such works for their pre-
scribed course of study, it is essential
that they be most carefully selected.
Mrs. Hunts acquaintance with the
matter qualities her to speak with
authority, and the rules laid down by her
are deserving of attention from parents,
teachers and those who control our
educational forces throughout the
Republic. To them we commend her.
utterances, which are so tersely put
that they are given verbatim:
First-Arc the origin and poisonous.
character of alcoholic drinks described
that is. the nature of beer, wine, cider,
etc? If only the effects of alcohol are
mentioned, and little or nothing is said
against the specific drinks containing
alcohol such book is incomplete, is
evasive and does not comply with the.
laws which specify that 1.-THE effects of
alcoholic drinks shall be taught-the
object being to warn the pupil against
such beverages, containing alcohol, as.
he will be tempted to take.
Seconds the aforesaid topic made
the principle theme of the book, or is it
subordinate to the physiology If so,
such a book is not physiology and
hygiene, with special reference to the
effects of alcoholic drinks" etc
Text books for intermediate and pri-
mary grades, to honestly comply with
the intent of the law, should at least
give one-forth of their space to alco-
holics and narcotics.
Third-Are the effects of these drinks
fully statedP If their agreeable results
are pictured and, in the same connec-
ton nothing is said of their dangers,
such book is unsafe. If the book de-
nounces drunkenness with little or no
warming against beginning to drink, it
will not offend the brewer or a moder-
ate drinker, and will not emphatically
teach total abstinence.
Fourth-The book should be adapted
to grade. If primary or intermediate
scholars can not understand the works
designed for them, the study of those
important grades will inevitably prove
a failure.-N Y. Witness.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-01-22
COWBOY HOSPITALITY,
rhe Free and Easy Way in Which They
Welcome Travellers and Strangers.

Irhe Free and Easy Way in Which They
welcome Travellers and Strangers.
One hot afternoon, as we were APP
lproaching Big Dry Creek, cowboy
lsuddenly rode in sight on the crest of a
fridge, and came down the slope toward
lus at a swinging gallop. He sat as
erect as a bronze statue, and had he
lbeen dashed to his horse like another
lMazeppa he could not have sat more
perfectly motionless in his saddle. In
stinctively we Strengthened mp our tired
shoulders, and sat erect also Evident
| ~ he wanted to speak to us. SO we
rode frward to meet him, wondering the
while whether his manner would be
agreeable orirritating.
After we had civilly exchanged how
do-you-dos, he inquired il we had seen
any horses since morning. He had lost
some, and up to that time, two o'clock,
had ridden about twenty-five miles in
search of them, No, we had not seen
any horses. So we fell to asking ques-
Iions about trails, creeks and water
holes. We were getting a deal of infor-
nation, when he suddenly exclaimed:
'Looky here, fellers! The best thing
you can do is to pull on to our ranch
and put up for awhile. It's only twelve
lpliles lfrom here. Take the trail that
IfGrns off to the left, about three miles
ahead. You won't find anybody at
home-the boys are all off on the round
up, you know-but just go right in and
make yourselves at home"
isn't the door locked?"
Thunder, no! We never lock doors
in this country. Somebody might come
along hungry, and want to get in to get
some grub, or stay all night If cow
boy wanted to get in, and found the
door locked, he'd just simply break it
down."
"Aren't you afraid of thieves?'
80, no; nothing is ever stolen. A
mans upon his honor, you know; and,
besides, if fellcr'd ever really steal
any thing out of shack. the corntry'd
soon be too hot to hold him. Anybody
that comes to a shack hungry is ex-
pected to go in and get square meal,
and stay all night if he wants to-"
Isn't that privilege often abused?'
mo, hardly ever. Say, you'll find a
cow up at the ranch and you can milk
her if you want to. There are plenty of
eggs about the stable; if you want 'em
go for 'em. Just make yourselves at
home, and stay as long as you like. I'll
be glad to have yer company"
A few more remarks were exchanged,
and then our cowbow gathered up his
reins and said:
"Well, I've got to finish my circuit,
twenty miles more, reckon; so | must
be moving. So long. I'll see you at
she ranch about sundown."
And tlinging the last remark over his
shoulder at us his pony galloped rapidly
away, a moment later he rode over the
ridge and disappeared.-W z. Horn
1Ctdy, IN Cosmopolitan.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-01-22
AT MIDNIGHT.

The room is cold and dark tonight
The fire is low;
Why come you, you who love the light,
To mock me so?
/ pray you leave me now alone;
You worked your will
And turned my heart to frozen stone:
Why haunt me still?
got me to this empty place;
l shut the door;
Yet through the dark | see your face
Just as of yore.
The old smile curves your lips tonight,
Your deep eyes glow
With that old CLEAN that made them bright
So long ago.
listen: do hear your tone
The silence thrill?
Why come you? l would be alone:
Why veX me still?
What? Would you that we re-embrace--
We two once more?
Are these your tears that wet my face
just as before!
You left to seek some new delight,
Yet your tears flow:
What sorrow brings you back tonight?
Shall not know!
will not let you grieve alone
- The night is chill
Though love is dead and hope has flown,
Pity lives still.
How silent is the empty spaced
Dreamed once more?
Henceforth against your haunting face
I bar the door.
Louise Chandler MOult0B. in Hdrper'S MGgdzine
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-01-22
TEMPERANCE,
A TALE OF TWO MEN.

There was a man in our town,
And he was wondrous wise,
He delved into piece of land
And made good crops arise.
When he saw what he had done,
He said: ITS very plain,
The best thing can do is to
Peg right in again"
And SO he pegged, and pegged,
Til competence was won;
Then, thankful, said This land OF ours
Is best. beneath the sum-
There was another man in town
A blockhead rare was he;
Into saloon he went and drank
Till he could scarcely see,
And kept it up week in and out
Till money all was gone;
With wife and children dressed in rags,
The poorest in the town.
Broken down and nearly gone
Not nickel left to save
His only hope, when all is done,
Six feet of pauper's grave!
-Cle0eldRd Ledder.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-01-22
Electrical Stoves.

Electrical heating stoves are being
introduced in France, a peculiar feature
of their construction being that the
wires are let through apertures formed
in plates of refractory clay and plum
bago. These plates are not inclosed.
but ara left exposed, so that the air can
circulate very freely through the aper
lures, where it comes in contact with
the red hot wires. Wire bobbins are
inserted in the apertures, each bob bin
forming part of the electric circuit, and
all being connected for quantity; the
bobbins are heated by the passage of the
current, and serve to heat the air as it
passes to and fro over them. boston,
Badg9t
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-01-22

This is the sort of weather when the
average boy gets up slowly and reluct-
antly. An Austin lady went to the
door of her sons sleeping apartment
and remarked:
"Why, Johnny, aren't you up yetP'
"No, ma, it's so colo"
"You lazy little scamp! Get up, and
be ashamed of yourself"
"Let me sleep little while longer.
l can be ashamed of myself in bed just
as well as anywhere else. '-ZeraS Sit.
ingS.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-01-22

NOTHING is easier than to prove that
human selfshness and frailty have
much to do with the persistence of the
evil. But nothing is so difficult as to
secure comprehension of the vital
truth that beyond the foibles of indi-
viduals and classes lies the national
supineness or tacit approval of the sa-
loon, as Il determining Cause George
Frederic Parsons.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-01-22

in the school-books of IL generation
still young vast tract of territory west
If the Missouri river was known as the
"Great American desert, and the man.
ner in which that supposed sterile area
has been transformed into profitable
grazing regions and has even been COW
cred with fertile farms and gardens is
one of the most remarkable achieve
ments of American enterprise during
the past decade. Eastern people who
behold with wonder the present rapio
Growth Of that section are even led tC
believe that the settlers bring an in
creased fainfall with them and thus
overcome the arid character of the
Mains, OF at least that the cultivation
of the soil and the planting of trees en-
nance the supply of atmospheric moist
ure.-M y Herald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-01-22

VIRCHow says that beer drinkers
have hypertrophicd kidneys. This con-
dition is due to the constant state OF
congestion in which the organ must DO
maintained in order that it may perform
the extra work demanded of it in elim~
mating the beer from the system
Health aud H0nSS
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-01-22

"A Haverhili paper talks about its
first families. In a shoe town one would
expect to hear about the last families
instead. -Lot0eU LItizea.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-01-22

If you have no dark place for the
fruit cans wrap each one separately in
heavy paper Coed Housekeeping.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-01-23
MESSENGER BOYS HARDSHlPS.
Extracts from Joe Towards Letter.
Hard Work. Long Hours. Temptations.

We complain Of their lazineSs. Perhaps
they are tired. Let's look at that for mo-
meut
A days work is supposed TO be ten hours,
but the boys are compelled 10 remain until
they are "lct OF, - and in many cases these
little chaps work from fourteen 10 sixteen
hours a day. For the extra hours he re-
ceives extra pay of five cents each, 50 that
assuming fourteen hours 10 be the limit, in
addition 10 his regular pay he would re-
ceive five cents an hour for four hours, or
twenty cents, for which he gives up his rest,
his sleep, his recreation-pretty tough.
We little know the temptations TO which
they are subjected. l have seen little fell
lows on the streets at midnight and i'm the
early hours of the morning, sometimes -
legitimate crrands, often not. ] overlook
one not long since and questioned him for q
moment as we walked along. He said he
had been running for several hours i'm The
service of a sick man He had been 10 the
doctors two ~ three times 90 Che drug
store several times. for q nurse and TO the
pCstOGicc. and he was literally tagged ont.
The companies are as ready 90 place their
instruments i'm a barroom as ln church. in
a house OF III fame as in a private DWELLING.
and the boys, according % their turn and
not according TO their ages or experience,
are sent 10 those places at AL hours OF the
night, and 10 sporting houses, dives, all man
uor of Infamous rendezvous whore tAcir
owes are greeted with orgiecal developments
of various nature, where They acquire hab-
its of drinking and smoking, whore they
meet mcn as bad as the women with whom
they cuhSort. who drink and make them
drink, who solicit them 70 Indulgence i'm
every possible vice and subject them TO inn
diguitics and outrages which would para
I'VE. one would suppose. the society organ
led for the prevention of cruelty TO chill
dren. if by an accident they should ever
know OF the bcastlnc5s to which children
are exposed i'm this Christian city.
Little chaps are forced to buy beer by
the biz boys in the Office, and good boys who
never drink are expected to put money in
toward paying for il as much as bad boys
who want the drink. They think it is great
fun at times to badger each other and not
only TO tempt but to force boys to all man
ner of dirt and evil.
As a rule. the offices are contracted and
crowded, overheated and badly ventilated
A boy may be out in the rain or the snow
for hours and on returning seat himself
neor a heater, whence, after steamlng for
half an hour or so, he is called and starts out
again with shrunken clothes. He rides i'm
the heated elevated cars on a winter day or
walks in the biting blast.-Joe Howard in
New York World.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-01-23

Finding that it is becoming late he decides
he had better leave ,etter.
The person for whom the letter Is intended
having moved in the mean time he drops 1t
in the basement and returns to the office.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-01-23
Cen. Locan,s Washington House.

The general found his Stone house in a
frightful state OF decay. There was scarcely
a whole window pane in it. Doors were
broken into slivers and half the locks we're
gone. 4 few thousand dollars would have
made it over into palace; a few hundred
have made pretty good house of it. There
are no glass partitions by Tiffany; no
carved mahogany stair rails; nor are the
ceilings and walls lincrusta-w altOnized.
Mrs Logan took charge of identifying the
house For weeks she frequented the sec
ond hand stores, and even within the last
few weeks these places have heard her care
full, di terminating inquiries. The house
abounds in old fashioned Virginia and
MARYLAND furniture. \ s. sofa is the best
in his house New Mexico, where Mrs.
Mai. Tucker, the only daughter of the
general and Mrs Logan, has lived for
several years, has given a good deal of the
Furnishings of Calumet place. In the hall
hangs Il big cowboys hat, which is worth
So an ounce and weighs three-fourths Of a
pound. Around it hang i'll festoons bead
embroidered medicine bands, and crossed
under it are two fine painted Indian bows.
Navajo blankets of most gorgeous colors are
used as portieres. War relics are strewed
around in all sorts of places. Swords and
bayonets, cartridge boxes and BnapSacks,
baversacks and blankets hang in well de-
signed groups in nearly every room. These
are interesting and decorative, and il does
not take a national bank TO pay for them.
Washington Letter.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-01-23

.entiou 70 the cry. when it is seen that the
young impressiouist's half finished picture,
ease. and a.l has started in flight toward the
ceiling
Away over i'm the corcer there one may see
the cause of the victims discomfort Some
misclivou, comrades have rugged up a rope
and block and have played ON the youngster
very practical joke indeed.
Over iu another part of the great room one
may Ierlap, find "a student explating some
utIacu1n Of the rules of the place by serving
rs "a model for the rest Or he may have
assumed the position as the result Of lot cast
Ing 40 all events, the young man whose
pose is here sketched by the artist cannot be
in a very comfortable position but while he
endure the rest are painting, and he may
have the satisfaction of seeing the counterfeit
Of h., body In bondage in a picture hung
upouth line at the next salon
By and by a commotion ensueS over a
friendly dispute that has risen between two
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-01-23
Destined for Greatness.

A wealthy gentleman Intercepted his
sons teacher as TO the boys capabilities:
''You have been giving private lessons to
my son for more than Year," Eyes, sir;
it's more than a year" "Well, by this
time you must have got a pretty good idea
as 10 his capablities?' II think l have. F"
"Now tell me candidly has he not got a re-
markedly intellectual grasp" Indeed he
has; quite remarkable, in fact" "Ahl /
am glad TO hear il. eyes; / think | can
truthfully say that he grasps the simplest
problem with the greatest imaginable diff
cnltv Texas Siftings.